finger

Created by Unknown User (met6), last modified on Sep 09, 2008

Verb 1. Look up, on VAX computer system, a finger plan; "Hey, if you log on, can you finger me and see if I have any messages?" 2. Finger plan, name and new mail status on VAX computer (no examples)

Source: Dictionary of Geneseo English, Spring 1994 - Kocher

2006

Comments:

I have never ever heard this word used as described here. 

Posted by met6 at Sep 09, 2008 19:36

I’m not even sure how you check someone else’s messages….

Posted by jfw3 at Sep 16, 2008 22:12

It does occurr to me that there are "fingermen" in V for Vendetta, their job is to finger or point out possible threats to national security, perhaps it derives from that, though I still have never heard anyone use the term in this sense.

Posted by jfw3 at Nov 29, 2008 23:49

Based on survey results, 0% of participants could define the word based on the Geneseo Wiki Dictionary’s meaning; indicating that the word is obsolete based on the given definition (M Gillanders, A-F, 2019).

Posted by meg23 at Apr 23, 2019 21:47

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